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OT----Found another use for WD40

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Jiles

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This stuff amazes me, One of the best inventions/discovery.
I bought a Solo Backpack Pump Sprayer off eBay that the seller stated was "sticky" inside and out--didn't clean. I made a ridiculous offer that was accepted.
Anyway, started cleaning it and I used Lacquer Thinner, Mineral Spirits, and the strongest soap cleaner I had and nothing would touch this layer of wax. Seller stated it was Thompson Water Seal --water based.
I was about to give up when my wife asked me if I had tried WD40.
I went to the basement and WD40 almost seemed to melt it !
Guess that's why I buy it by the gallon.
 
Do you know how WD40 got its name?

The U.S. Navy was looking for a product to disperse water from the ignition systems of small boats. WD40 was the 40th formula tested. WD=Water Dispersant.
 
It has been used to treat scaly leg mites on poultry. (Google it)
For me, the only time I ever use it is to dry out a distributor cap. IMO, for anything else, there is a better product available.
 
Starting fluid. Not quite as potent as ether, but don't be fooled either. You're going out to work on that been setting for years tractor that you just bought and have to loosen stuff up thats kind of rusty, WD40. Now you have to start it but forgot the ether, WD40 right down the throat. Don't over do it. Its potent, just not as potent as ether.

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 03:59:05 04/24/15) It has been used to treat scaly leg mites on poultry. (Google it)
For me, the only time I ever use it is to dry out a distributor cap. IMO, for anything else, there is a better product available.
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Gambles-- what would you have recommended for cleaning this dried Thompson WS?
I contacted Thompson and they had no suggestions.
 
Mark, I have found that for rusty bolts and nuts, WD-40 will work, but not very fast. I generally use a high grade penetrant for that. But you are right about using it as a starting fluid, I have done that many times. A while back I was checking out an old mower that I had bought, and had already pulled the carburetor off, but really wanted to hear it run before I went any farther. I sprayed WD-40 into the intake and hit the starter. I sat there for about three minutes spraying WD-40 into the intake while I listened to it run to determine if the internals were tight enough to make repairs worthwhile.
 
Mark - IN,

Is the new WD40 as good as the stuff from a few years back, for use as starting fluid?
I used to use it all the time on small engines, chainsaws, as a starting fluid, but to me this new can seems not quite as good as it used to be.

I assumed there was maybe a change to the WD40, but maybe it is just me.
Wonder if anybody else noticed this.
 
I'm glad WD40 worked for you. Perhaps there is something that it really does well.
If I was trying to do the job you were doing, I'd would have used Floway or Kreen that is sold by Kano Labs.
Much harder to get than WD40, but it's I don't think anything compares to either product.
 

I go through a fair amount of WD-40 using it as a rust preventive by displacing moisture with it. I also use it as a light lubricant occasionally. I find it hard to understand why people need to knock it so much as a penetrating oil. Everybody jumps on the band wagon of how it doesn't work, when nobody claims that it does. All fired up about s non-issue.
 

It use to be a good starting fluid like you I found it does not work for me any more... I suspect the propellant was the starting fluid and they changed it...Brake clean works great tho....
 
I like WD-40 as well as anyone. What I can't stand is the new "smart straw" they have put on the cans. Fortunately I saved a couple caps off the old cans and switch them.
 
I keep a can for general use, it works fine as a light lubricant. I like the smart straw as it stays in place. Never could keep the old little tube when the can was rattling around in my truck. What I don't like about it is the smell.
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Yeah, they changed the propellant some years ago.
My buddy used to use it in his potato cannon and it lit off good.
Now it wont burn anymore.
 
(quoted from post at 20:44:55 04/23/15) This stuff amazes me, One of the best inventions/discovery.
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'tweaked' my knee one time - the next day it was still VERY painful - I recalled how the local 'old folks' were buying up large amounts of WD-40 at the local discount store to alleviate their arthritis pain SO I went out to the shop and sprayed my knee with the stuff. The pain disappeared within minutes and has stayed away for 25 years or more ........ :shock: .......just sayin'........
 
My wife used to spray her minnow and jig with WD 40 when walleye fishing. I believe Minn has new laws now days about doing that. OK to use scent made for fishing though.
 
I don't know. Will have to try it tomorrow when I fire up the trim mower. Last time I used it as starting fluid was a few years ago.

Mark
 
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